Enough

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Wed Dec 19 03:38:08 UTC 2007


Christopher Curran wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Murray McAllister wrote:
>>> On Dec 19, 2007 10:40 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>>  
>>>>     The key things are just killing me. I have Seahorse running and it
>>>> is no help at all. It is just too much for me. Since you will not not
>>>> let me write for Fedora without all these things done, I will not 
>>>> write
>>>> for Fedora.
>>>>
>>>> Karl
>>>>
>>>> Goodbye
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Karl, what steps do you use to generate keys?
>>>
>>> I followed these steps verbatim:
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/CreatingKeys
>>>
>>> 1. gpg --gen-key (I used all the default values)
>>> 2. gpg --fingerprint your at email.address
>>>
>>> For me this prints something such as the following:
>>>
>>> pub   1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
>>> Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46  20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
>>> Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) 
>>> <murray.mcallister at gmail.com>
>>> sub   2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
>>>
>>> Maybe the GPGKEYID is confusing? Using my example, first line (pub),
>>> it is the second hex value (81B3FDEB)
>>>
>>> 3. Upload to MIT: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-keys 81B3FDEB
>>>
>>> 4. To export them, and possibly upload them to make an account: gpg
>>> --export --armor murray.mcallister at gmail > murray_pub.asc
>>> will export my public key to murray_pub.asc
>>>
>>> If you are still around, could you please run through the steps I have
>>> here (even though they are a copy of the website), and let me know how
>>> you go.
>>>
>>> All the best.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>
>>> pub   1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
>>> Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46  20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
>>> Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) 
>>> <murray.mcallister at gmail.com>
>>> sub   2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
>>>
>>>   
>> Murray, The last straw is after I got the stupid thing to put my 
>> signature into the message back to fedora It didn't do that right. 
>> And I just get Sorry your file is currupt.
>>
>> So having made 3 key rings and numerous tries at getting the thing to 
>> work I am done. There is something odd about F8 or something I am not 
>> aware of is causing trouble. But I'm tired of chasing problems.
>>
>>    Everything else seems to work fine.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
> Did you edit the .txt file before applying the key? It didn't 
> explicitly say that so that may be your issue.
Geeze you guys take for a stupid jerk? Of course I did! Your fucking 
instructions say nothing but the message said to do it so I did.

But good by. I am not going to write for your group because it is way 
too hard.

Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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